Bijay Yadav 5:33 pm on October 6, 2026
Tags: themes ( 549 ), weekly updates ( 244 )

Themes team update October 6, 2026

i) Theme directory stats

Currently,

131 new tickets are waiting for review.
- 0 tickets are older than 4 weeks
- 0 tickets are older than 2 weeks
- 27 tickets are older than 1 week
- 92 tickets are older than 3 days
61 tickets are assigned.
- 4 tickets are older than 4 weeks
- 23 tickets are older than 2 weeks
- 57 tickets are older than 1 week
- 60 tickets are older than 3 days
3 new themes are approved but are waiting to be made live.
51 theme updates are approved but are waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

701 tickets were opened
694 tickets were closed
- 641 tickets were made live.
  - 33 new Themes were made live.
  - 608 Theme updates were made live.
  - 33 new themes was approved but are waiting to be made live.
  - 51 theme updates are approved but are waiting to be made live.
- 53 tickets were not approved.
- 0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

Note: These stats include both the new theme tickets and updated theme tickets as well. And data from themes trac.

Number of reviewers: 13 (@aslamnaik, @bijayyadav, @bikram_sth, @dimikjones, @fahimmurshed, @franchidesign, @kafleg, @luzuk, @martatorre, @nitspatel, @noruzzaman, @productiveminds, @wpinterface)

ii) BlockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. Theme Stats

82 Block themes are currently being reviewed
18 block themes have been live for the last 7 days

iii) HelpScout Stats

In the past 7 days,

Email Conversations 4	Messages Received 8
Replies Sent 5	Emails Created 0
Resolved 4	Resolved on First Reply 50%

iv) Extras

Create Block Theme pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party. now has 20000+ active installs. There are 95 active issues and 15 pull requests in GitHub.
Theme Check Plugin has 11 PRs and 40 issues.

Co-written by @kafleg

#themes, #weekly-updates

Francisco Torres 4:15 pm on October 5, 2026
Tags: plugins ( 609 )

Plugins Team: 5 Oct 2026

PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party. Status Change Stats

Plugins requested : 1119
Plugins rejected : 300
Plugins closed : 150
Plugins approved : 915

Plugin Queue Stats (current)

Plugins in the queue (new and pending)* : 4611
- (older than 7 days ago)** : 3723
- (2026-09-28 – 2026-10-04) : 600
- (new; not processed or replied to yet)* : 148
- (pending; replied to)* : 4463
- (pending; waiting on author)* : 3789
- (pending; waiting on reviewer)* : 442
- (pending; waiting on reviewer, email not yet sent)* : 232

Help Scout Queue Stats

Total Conversations: 2456
New Conversations: 1496
Customers: 2057
Conversations per Day: 307
Busiest Day: Monday
Messages Received: 1618
Replies Sent: 4575
Emails Created: 1248

* : Stat reflects current size of queue and does not take into account ‘date’ or ‘day’ interval
** : Stat reflects activity only within the ‘recentdays’ from today

#plugins

Milana Cap 8:52 am on October 5, 2026
Tags: docs ( 227 )

Documentation Team Update – October 5, 2026

New schema for docs meetings:

1st in the month – SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ chat
2nd in the month – Video call
3rd in the month – Slack chat
4th in the month – Contributor DayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/ (video)
5th in the month – Video call

Documentation Issue Tracker stats.

Current state

By status:

To do: 362
In progress: 30
Review: 87

By version:

7.1: 11
7.0: 0
6.9: 4
6.8: 0
6.7: 17
6.6: 18
6.5: 8
6.4: 32
6.3: 1

By project:

Past month

0 pull requests merged.

87 issues closed.

13 issues were created.

Current projects:

The Documentation team repositories:

#docs

Rade Jekić 6:15 pm on October 4, 2026
Tags: training ( 72 )

Training Team Update – October 4th, 2026

Hello from the Training Team!
Here’s our monthly roundup of updates, highlights, and ways to get involved. Let’s celebrate the work accomplished last month and look ahead together!

📌 Highlights

Here are some important updates from the Training Team!

📚 The Learn WordPress DACH team finished its first German-language course cohort, “Starten mit WordPress” – seven weeks, seven live sessions, always two facilitators, a prepared curriculum for every single session, and answers in SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/ in between. In the final session, every participant presented a website they had built themselves. Wonderful commitment, and a great model for all us to learn from.
🤖 AI Is Everywhere – Now What? @piyopiyofox decided to create a course and help you learn the basics (and much more). New course is live, check it out: https://learn.wordpress.org/course/ai-literacy-through-wordpress/. After you finish it, we suggest a deep dive into https://learn.wordpress.org/course/ai-powered-wordpress/.
🧳 The Training Team is working on a big project: finding outdated content in the Training Team handbook and updating it. Feel free to learn more about it and join us. You can find us in the #training channel on Slack.
🏫 We are actively working on multi-language pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party. testing – we decided to reorganize all the translated content and make the Learn website easier to use for everyone. We will update you shortly.

⚒️ Overview of the Training Team Activities in September

We held 5 Training Team meetings. Weekly meetings continued to be facilitated by team reps, but in the future this will be changed. We decided to give this role to all new admins in the Training Team who are willing to facilitate the meetings.
We held our fifth Training Team Office Hours meeting on September 26th and scheduled the next for October (we will inform you once the date is set and confirmed). You can find the latest Training Team Office Hours meeting recap here: https://make.wordpress.org/training/2026/09/29/office-hours-meeting-recap-september-26-2026/

You can read the meeting recap notes for weekly meetings on the Training Team blog.

📋 Project Status

Project	Number of Active Tickets
🔍 Content ready for review	9
🐛 Feedback awaiting validation	44
🧪 Topics awaiting vetting	4
✅ Validated feedback awaiting fix	27
👀 Translations ready to review	26

📋 Project Update

Task Type	Completed
🧯 Closed feedback tasks	17
📖 Translated content	22
🖊️ Translation in progress	14
🪚 Workshops completed	0

Huge thanks to all contributors – whether you took notes on a meeting, facilitated a meeting, translated or reviewed content, created content, hosted or co-hosted a workshop, or helped us wrangle the tasks and issues in GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged by the repository owner. https://github.com/. Your efforts power the Training Team forward. 🙌

+make.wordpress.org/training/

#training

Konstantin Obenland 5:04 pm on October 2, 2026
Tags: make.wordpress.org/meta ( 6 ), p2-xpost ( 77 )

X-post: Heads up: HelpScout to FreeScout Migration

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Bijay Yadav 3:08 pm on September 29, 2026
Tags: themes ( 549 ), weekly updates ( 244 )

Themes team update September 29, 2026

i) Theme directory stats

Currently,

98 new tickets are waiting for review.
- 0 tickets are older than 4 weeks
- 0 tickets are older than 2 weeks
- 18 tickets are older than 1 week
- 70 tickets are older than 3 days
53 tickets are assigned.
- 2 tickets are older than 4 weeks
- 30 tickets are older than 2 weeks
- 52 tickets are older than 1 week
- 53 tickets are older than 3 days
3 new themes are approved but are waiting to be made live.
73 theme updates are approved but are waiting to be made live.

In the past 7 days,

666 tickets were opened
609 tickets were closed
- 573 tickets were made live.
  - 56 new Themes were made live.
  - 517 Theme updates were made live.
  - 3 new themes was approved but are waiting to be made live.
  - 73 theme updates are approved but are waiting to be made live.
- 36 tickets were not approved.
- 0 tickets were closed-newer-version-uploaded.

Note: These stats include both the new theme tickets and updated theme tickets as well. And data from themes trac.

Number of reviewers: 12 (@aslamnaik, @bijayyadav, @bikram_sth, @dimikjones, @fahimmurshed, @franchidesign, @kafleg, @luzuk, @noruzzaman, @productiveminds, @vowelweb, @wpinterface)